What ammo does a flamethrower use?

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Vehementi

Any thoughts on reload times? Would these canisters be reloadable or would I be throwing them away on the field and using backup canisters from my vehicle or whatever?

On the cable show Sons of Guns they met a Marine who won the Medal of Honor in WWII through flamethrower use.

The procedure for attacking pillboxes with a flamethrower was to leopard-crawl into range with the 70 lb unit on your back. Use flamethrower and discard. Leopard-crawl back to friendlies out of line of fire and get new flamethrower.

He went through 6 flamethrowers and 7 pillboxes in one afternoon and that's the sort of thing they give you the extra shiny medals for.

He still thought flamethrowers were really fun to play with when he was 90 too.

Reloading a flamethrower is certainly possible but needs multiple gallons of (potentially thickened) fuel and compressed gas too. It makes more sense to "carry" multiple flamethrowers than to try and reload one under fire. You can carry the reloading stuff in the back of a truck easily enough.